Ma'azi Zahreddine

Ma'azi Zaher ad-Din was a Syrian lieutenant who served in the army's southern sector during the 1960s. He was the nephew of the Syrian commander-in-chief, and he met the undercover Mossad agent Eli Cohen (posing as Syrian businessmen Kamel Amin Thaabet) at a Damascus bar in 1962, where he befriended him after Cohen bought him drinks. ad-Din camet o be one of Cohen's closest friends, helping him tour the Golan Heights and introducing him to his uncle and to Colonel Salim Hatum.